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[X] The enemy formation is becoming scattered and stretched thin in trying to respond to the Outer Fleet
[X] The Rose is severely damaged
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[X] The Rose is severely damaged
4 people have voted
Petals of Titanium -- My Life as a Mecha Setting Bridge Bunny Quest
- Thread starter Gazetteer
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- Original Sci-Fi Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
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- Nova Scotia
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- She/Her
I regret to inform you, we are more or less in the middle of endgame territory here. I would also seriously caution you against assuming I won't kill characters who people like off.
I have accepted write-ins previously and do so on a case-by-case basis. I feel compelled to note that yours represents a considerably more dramatic, immediate tactical disadvantage compared to the provided options, though.
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- MS, USA
Ah, that's unfortunate. Still, at least I saw it in time to read through and enjoy it, and I'll catch the ending as it happens. I wasn't assuming you wouldn't kill off characters people like.
Also, I am fully aware my write-ins it presents an immediate, dramatic tactical disadvantage. Like I was saying though, I'm thinking more along the lines off 'what choice makes for a good plot' rather than 'what choice is best'. If I thought seriously that killing a character I liked would advance the plot of this 'show' (i.e. The story the quest is telling) I would be only moderately more resistant to that idea than the write-in. Of course, it doesn't matter. Because no one is voting for it.
(And this ended up longer than I intended but I can't see a way to trim it down. Ack.)
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- Australia
This is based at least somewhat on Gundam... Where favourite characters are routinely killed off late in the story...
I think the last Gundam show @Gazetteer watched was Iron-Blooded Orphans.
Just saying. There is surely no other reason why I bring this up.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
I really want it to be Mosi's data that saves our butts. While it won't be near enough to wipe out her ledger, every life her turning saves improves her odds after the battle.
And unlike literally everyone else I care about (and mom), Mosi isn't in danger of dying right now.
While I am still absolutely torn trying to pick my poison, I do know that I absolutely don't want civilian casualties now. So I'll use "what option is best suited to keep that vote down" as my internal tiebreaker.
[X] The Rose is severely damaged
Though I am definitely terrified we will get an "The Rose was completely destroyed" option during the next aftermath because of this, and not picking it will be very painful. Like, I fear with the damaged Rose we might end up choosing who to save between Lori and Amani.
Because this is the end game and our protagonist is not needed for the epilouge.
I really want it to be Mosi's data that saves our butts. While it won't be near enough to wipe out her ledger, every life her turning saves improves her odds after the battle.
And unlike literally everyone else I care about (and mom), Mosi isn't in danger of dying right now.
While I am still absolutely torn trying to pick my poison, I do know that I absolutely don't want civilian casualties now. So I'll use "what option is best suited to keep that vote down" as my internal tiebreaker.
[X] The Rose is severely damaged
Though I am definitely terrified we will get an "The Rose was completely destroyed" option during the next aftermath because of this, and not picking it will be very painful. Like, I fear with the damaged Rose we might end up choosing who to save between Lori and Amani.
Because this is the end game and our protagonist is not needed for the epilouge.
DracoDracul
Transbian Communist
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- Austin
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- She/They
It's probably too late to matter at this point, but would "The Empress is dead" be an acceptable write in?
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- Nova Scotia
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- She/Her
I am going to call this vote tomorrow in the interests of starting work on the next update.
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
Oh boy, Rose is getting destroyed once again for the who knows how many times
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Well then better decide to flipflop votes quickly then!
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[X] Someone you care for is lost
Because having the Rose be damaged already seems like too obvious a choice to me, and that makes me think I've overlooked something vital... And because it is the less popular of the two things I swing between, that's also a reason why I vote for it.
also please let J6 be the one who dies and not my beloved Owusu kthx
The latter won't happen until the next vote, taking everybody with it...
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[X] Someone you care for is lost
Because having the Rose be damaged already seems like too obvious a choice to me, and that makes me think I've overlooked something vital... And because it is the less popular of the two things I swing between, that's also a reason why I vote for it.
also please let J6 be the one who dies and not my beloved Owusu kthx
It is heavily damaged, not destroyed.
The latter won't happen until the next vote, taking everybody with it...
Why is everyone so reluctant to accept civilian casualties for any vote ever?
It's called part of "the horrors of war". Bring in that piece of it!
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Because it is avoidable at the moment.
If we can trade hundreds of soldiers for thousands of civilians, that is the sort of trade soldiers are meant for. Bonus points when the offer is"
But rejoice, for I have switched my vote and brought Mosi-Rosebreaker down to a mere eight-vote lead. Now is the time for you to strike!
Civilians didn't sign up to get shot at by zealots, and were minding their lives just fine. Anja's already lost Ito, let's not get her family killed (and even Mazlo being a right proper ass doesn't deserve getting his family blown up).
Ugh. I guess I should harden my heart since if what Kei said above is true, we're going full space opera and someone's biting the dust sooner or later... q.q
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[X] Someone you care for is lost
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To a certain extent, if I vote for it and it happens, I'm kind of complicit in it.
I don't enjoy that; even in something like a Bioware game I'm not going to play the 'evil' route, much less something that doesn't let me reload and try the other path. The innocents exist to be protected by people like our protagonists.
Of course I'm super into the flipside where we kill off likable characters who are in the fray, for the pathos of it.
Vote to kill someone we like today!
That's just... not the way I view it, I guess. You're acting like these are real lives that should be treated with the respect of real people where you try to do "cold calculus" to obtain the best outcome.
But they're not real people. It's just directions in a story. A million dead civilians in a story is just a statistic; they're not people on screen who we have any emotional attachment to. It's not morally superior or inferior to decide to have them die anymore than Gazeteer is a war criminal for having the Holy Empire attack them in the first place, you know?
If the idea is that we love the characters of Anja and Mazlo so much that we don't want to them have the pain of losing their families then fair enough.
But I kind like the idea of watching the characters we love swallow the bitter pill that they couldn't save anyone and feeling very bad indeed about those faceless millions.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
The problem is that it wouldn't be the characters failing to save everyone, it would be us refusing to let them save everyone.
And of course, they already couldn't save everyone. Mosi (and her allies, of whom I've forgotten all names except Kim) made sure of that.
No, it would be the characters failing to save everyone. There's no in-universe choice to deliberately let people die. In-universe they tried their best and failed.
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- Nova Scotia
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- She/Her
That would by definition necessitate for the surface of Titan to be hit, so it's in practice a more punitive version of an option you already have available.
The Rose does have escape pods, so I cannot garuntee that literally everyone onboard would die if the ship were fatally damaged.
(Technically, it was Gundam Unicorn, a show where definitely no major characters die kind of pointlessly near the end)
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Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
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- Canada
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- He/Him
Ffffuck.
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[X] Someone you care for is lost
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[X] Someone you care for is lost
DracoDracul
Transbian Communist
- Location
- Austin
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[X] The Rose is severely damaged
[X] The Rose is severely damaged
- Location
- Ohio
Ughhhhhhhh...... I'm gonna do it. In a probably vein attempt to save the "damage the Rose" option for a dramatic last stand situation or something, I'm switching.
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[x] Someone you care for is lost
Please not ..... fuck I don't even know who it would hurt the most to lose ughhhhhhhh.
[X] Mosi's intelligence allows the Outer Fleet to eliminate several key targets early on
[x] Someone you care for is lost
Please not ..... fuck I don't even know who it would hurt the most to lose ughhhhhhhh.